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WSC
2007
13 years 9 months ago
Simulation tool for manpower forecast loading and resource leveling
Large scale / mega projects are lengthy complex endeavors that require significant planning by management, engineers and construction personnel to ensure the success of the projec...
Mikhail Hanna, Janaka Y. Ruwanpura
WSC
2008
13 years 9 months ago
The improved sweep metaheuristic for simulation optimization and application to job shop scheduling
We present an improved sweep metaheuristic for discrete event simulation optimization. The sweep algorithm is a tree search similar to beam search. The basic idea is to run a limi...
George Jiri Mejtsky
CP
2004
Springer
14 years 10 days ago
Heuristic Selection for Stochastic Search Optimization: Modeling Solution Quality by Extreme Value Theory
The success of stochastic algorithms is often due to their ability to effectively amplify the performance of search heuristics. This is certainly the case with stochastic sampling ...
Vincent A. Cicirello, Stephen F. Smith
AGILEDC
2008
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
How Did We Adapt Agile Processes to Our Distributed Development?
Today, many software projects are being developed by collaborating programmers working across multiple locations. Whatever the reason may be, outsourcing, organizational structure...
Cynick Young, Hiroki Terashima
ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Improving quality, one process change at a time
We report on one organization's experience making process changes in a suite of projects. The changes were motivated by clients’ requests for better time estimates, better ...
Caryna Pinheiro, Frank Maurer, Jonathan Sillito